Spike Lee & the Creators of 'High Maintenance'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jesse talks to acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee. Spike tells us about his new movie, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, how he really feels about Larry Bird and about his own very serious addiction.... to Air Jordans. Later Jesse sits down with Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair. The couple created the series High Maintenance, a "not on television" show that follows a New York City marijuana delivery guy as he visits his various clients. Plus, Jesse tells us about the best satire of the last ten years, MTV 2's Wonder Showzen.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jay from San Diego. I'm Chase from Seattle.
0:03.5	I'm Jamie from New York City.
0:05.0	Bull dye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
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0:16.1	I'm Jesse Thorne. This week I'm talking with the acclaimed filmmaker
0:20.0	Spike Lee about his new movie The Sweet Blood of Jesus.
0:24.6	The protagonist of the film is a young man named Dr. Hess Green.
0:28.9	He lives part-time on one of his estates in Martha's Vineyard,
0:32.7	where he collects African art and artifacts.
0:35.9	He throws cocktail parties.
0:37.6	As they say in San Francisco, he is hella money.
0:40.9	H-E-L-A-H-L-A-H-A-H-A-L-A-L-A, h-l-a-la. You know how we do it in the yay. Sucker-free. So anyway, your man has hella money.
0:56.0	And, um, Spike, I know that he has hell of money because game recognized game in the bay.
1:00.0	Oh, there you go, there you go.
1:02.0	The host's right, he's dropping science.
1:06.0	That was fun. It's bullsey. Coming up, I'll talk to filmmaker Spike Lee.
1:17.0	For his latest project, he's reimagined Bill Gunn's Blaxploitation
1:22.3	era movie, Gja and Haas.
1:24.8	The original film is about a doctor's assistant
1:27.2	who develops an insatiable desire for blood.
1:30.1	Well, the film was very trippy.
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